Chennai: The School Education Department has released the time table for half-yearly examinations for classes 12, 11 and 10 which will begin on 10 December.

Students will have a two-and-a-half hour paper and will be given 15 minutes additional time.

All the exams will start with the language paper and the examinations are scheduled to end on 22 December.

Schools have further been instructed to conduct the practical examinations for the general and vocational streams before the commencement of the half-yearly exams.